Ken wrote:
> Most companies do not use a lot of macros.
A company may not sanction them, but the users create, and use them.
> What are there are fairly easily rewritten.
Macros that a company _officially_ use, tend to be either very
trivial, or very non-trivial.
Either somebody wrote it in ten minutes, or they laid out between $500
and $100 000 for it.
OOo + macros can not currently duplicate what Word + Excel + macros can do.
>There are no reasons why corporations keen on savings on the middle to
long term would not adopt OD in the short term.
_IF_, and that is an extremely big _if_ Calc were comparable to Excel,
then you _might_ have a case.
Calc is nowhere near being the equal of Excel.
> All the rest is FUD.
If a business is not dependent upon spreadsheets, then OOo is good.
_If_ a business is dependent upon spreadsheets, then OOo is not a good tool.
[I'm ignoring that most spreadsheets are actually very badly designed,
and implemented databases.]
xan
jonathon
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